Samantha Morton

Samantha Morton

1977-05-13 Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England, UK 50 Credits

Biography

Samantha Jane Morton (born 1977) is an English actress. She is known for her work in independent films with dark and tragic themes, in particular period dramas. She has received numerous accolades, including the BAFTA Fellowship, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Morton was a member of the Central Junior Television Workshop in her native Nottingham and began her career in British television in 19...

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The Odyssey

The Odyssey

2026

Acting

An adaptation of Homer's epic poem of the same name, follow Odysseus in his perilous journey home after the Trojan War, showcasing his encounters with...

Anemone

Anemone

2025

Acting

Family bonds between fathers, sons, and brothers are explored as complex relationships unfold through personal journeys and generational conflicts.

2073

2073

2024

as Ghost

7.0
Acting

Inspired by Chris Marker's iconic 1962 featurette La Jetée; the year is 2073—a not-so-distant dystopian future—and the setting is New San Francisco, t...

The Whale

The Whale

2022

as Mary

7.8
Acting

A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

She Said

She Said

2022

as Zelda Perkins

7.2
Acting

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a generation — a story that helped launch the #MeToo ...

Save the Cinema

Save the Cinema

2022

as Liz Evans

6.2
Acting

The true story of Liz Evans, a hairdresser and leader of a youth theatre in Carmarthen, Wales, who began a campaign in 1993 to save the Lyric theatre ...

Two for Joy

Two for Joy

2018

as Aisha

7.5
Acting

A troubled family's problems come to a head during a stay in a seaside town.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

2016

as Mary Lou Barebone

7.3
Acting

In 1926, Newt Scamander arrives at the Magical Congress of the United States of America with a magically expanded briefcase, which houses a number of ...

Cider with Rosie

Cider with Rosie

2015

as Annie Lee

5.7
Acting

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

The Harvest

The Harvest

2015

as Katherine

6.0
Acting

After becoming orphaned, a lonely girl moves in with her grandparents and tries to befriend a sick, bed-ridden boy next door, despite his mother’s str...

Miss Julie

Miss Julie

2014

as Kathleen

5.6
Acting

Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduc...

Decoding Annie Parker

Decoding Annie Parker

2014

as Annie Parker

6.0
Acting

The lives of a breast-cancer patient and a researcher who is trying to prove a genetic link to cancer intersect in a groundbreaking study.

Her

Her

2013

Associate Producer

7.8
Producing

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theod...

Angels & Ghosts

2013

as Amber Crick (voice)

Acting

Based on a true story, Angels and Ghosts tells the emotive journey of Amber, a young girl who is on a quest to find her brothers who have disappeared....

Citizens of Cosmopolis

2012

as Self

6.1
Acting

An in-depth documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's feature film, Cosmopolis (2012), an adaptation of Don DeLillo's novel of the same name.

Cosmopolis

Cosmopolis

2012

as Vija Kinsky

5.7
Acting

Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo during a riot in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's life begins to crumble.

John Carter

John Carter

2012

as Sola

6.3
Acting

John Carter is a war-weary, former military captain who's inexplicably transported to the mysterious and exotic planet of Barsoom (Mars) and reluctant...

Miliband of Brothers

2010

as Self - Narrator

Acting

Charting the rise of the Milliband brother, from their left-wing upbringing to their University days, using dramatized scenes and interviews with peop...

The Messenger

The Messenger

2009

as Olivia Pitterson

6.8
Acting

Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is pa...

The Unloved

The Unloved

2009

Writer, Director

7.0
Writing Directing

Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a children's home. Through her eyes, we follow he...

The Daisy Chain

The Daisy Chain

2008

as Martha Conroy

5.3
Acting

A grieving couple move to a remote Irish village in the wake of their baby daughter's death. They soon take in an orphaned autistic girl, only to beco...

Synecdoche, New York

Synecdoche, New York

2008

as Hazel

7.6
Acting

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as ...

Mister Lonely

Mister Lonely

2008

as Marilyn Monroe

6.6
Acting

In Paris, a young American who works as a Michael Jackson lookalike meets Marilyn Monroe, who invites him to her commune in Scotland, where she lives ...

Control

Control

2007

as Debbie Curtis

7.5
Acting

The story of Joy Division’s lead singer Ian Curtis, from his schoolboy days in 1973 to his suicide on the eve of the band's first American tour in 198...

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

Elizabeth: The Golden Age

2007

as Mary, Queen of Scots

6.7
Acting

When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, she and her shrewd adviser must act to safeguard t...

Expired

Expired

2007

as Claire Barney

5.7
Acting

The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, ...

Max & Ruby - A Merry Bunny Christmas

2007

as Ruby

Acting

A Nick Jr. animated preschool series based on the hugely popular storybooks by Rosemary Wells. Max & Ruby celebrates the warm & humorous relat...

Longford

Longford

2006

as Myra Hindley

6.6
Acting

A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflic...

Lassie

Lassie

2005

as Sarah Carraclough

6.4
Acting

A family in financial crisis is forced to sell Lassie, their beloved dog. Hundreds of miles away from her true family, Lassie escapes and sets out on ...

River Queen

River Queen

2005

as Sarah O'Brien

5.7
Acting

An intimate story set during the 1860s in which a young Irish woman Sarah and her family find themselves on both sides of the turbulent wars between B...

Enduring Love

Enduring Love

2004

as Claire

5.7
Acting

Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a...

The Libertine

The Libertine

2004

as Elizabeth Barry

5.9
Acting

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn p...

Max & Ruby's Christmas

2004

as Ruby (voice)

10.0
Acting
In America

In America

2003

as Sarah

7.2
Acting

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.

Code 46

Code 46

2003

as Maria Gonzales

6.2
Acting

In a dystopian future, insurance fraud investigator William Gold arrives in Shanghai to investigate a forgery ring for "papelles", futuristic passport...

Morvern Callar

Morvern Callar

2002

as Morvern Callar

6.6
Acting

After her boyfriend commits suicide, a young woman attempts to use the unpublished manuscript of a novel and a sum of money he left behind to reinvent...

Minority Report

Minority Report

2002

as Agatha

7.3
Acting

John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the ...

Eden

Eden

2001

as Sam

2.6
Acting

In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine. She lives with Dov, an idealistic architect o...

Pandaemonium

Pandaemonium

2001

as Sara Coleridge

5.0
Acting

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, an unstable but brilliant poet, becomes friends with the unknown William Wordsworth, and together they set out to recreate En...

Jesus' Son

Jesus' Son

2000

as Michelle

6.3
Acting

A young man turns from drug addiction and petty crime to a life redeemed by a discovery of compassion.

Sweet and Lowdown

Sweet and Lowdown

1999

as Hattie

6.8
Acting

In the 1930s, jazz guitarist Emmet Ray idolizes Django Reinhardt, faces gangsters and falls in love with a mute woman.

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

Dreaming of Joseph Lees

1999

as Eva

6.0
Acting

Set in rural England in the 1950s Eva (Samantha Morton) fantasises about her handsome, worldly cousin Joseph Lees (Rupert Graves), with whom she fell ...

The Last Yellow

1999

as Jackie

6.0
Acting

Two losers try to lift themselves out of the mire by letting their fantasy world take over their lives.

Under the Skin

Under the Skin

1997

as Iris Kelly

6.2
Acting

Although married and pregnant Rose has always been mother's favorite, it is younger sister Iris whose life is shaken up by mother's death. Suffocating...

This Is the Sea

This Is the Sea

1997

as Hazel Stokes

5.7
Acting

The film is set in Northern Ireland shortly after 1994 cease-fire. Hazel is a Protestant and Malachy a Catholic. Romance between them is threatened by...

Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

1997

as Jane Eyre

7.1
Acting

After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she mee...

Emma

Emma

1996

as Harriet Smith

6.6
Acting

Emma Woodhouse has a rigid sense of propriety as regards matrimonial alliances. Unfortunately she insists on matchmaking for her less forceful friend,...

The Future Lasts A Long Time

The Future Lasts A Long Time

1996

as May

6.0
Acting

Dream-like short film starring Samantha Morton, in one of her earliest screen credits, as one of a couple on the run who hide out in the Fens.

Magik

Magik

N/A

as Lucia

Acting

Lewis Clark is a brilliant author who stumbles upon a world of Magic after the disappearance of his two young children. He begins a quest to try to st...

The Entertainment System Is Down

The Entertainment System Is Down

N/A

Acting

Set on a long-haul flight where the entertainment systems fail, an eclectic group of international passengers are forced to face the horror of being b...